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Letter "J" » John Berger Quotes
«All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this -- as in other ways -- they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
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«When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
| Keywords:
anguish, early childhood, first period, learnt, losses, put together, Return to
«Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
| Keywords:
drawing, imitation, interpretation, naturalist, naturalists, rendering, trace, unlike, visual, visual image
«Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
| Keywords:
An Age, City of London, demography, dickens, feminine, Odessa, Paris, Rome, Sex and, teenager, twenties, urchin
«Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.»
«Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.»
«One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating. This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
| Keywords:
abstract, callous, cynical, disillusion, disillusioned, idealism, inhuman, patients, They Live, uncertain
«Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why /but the editorialists forget it /terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
| Keywords:
bombs, deaf, discredit, discredited, discrediting, discredits, hijack, hijacked, hijacking, intolerable, reduced, terrorists, time bomb, transmit
«What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
| Keywords:
achieves, bourgeoisie, cinema, continuity, might-have-been, princes, spontaneous, vagrant, vagrants
«Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
| Keywords:
cinema, contrast, dramatic, dramatic art, enact, enacted, enacting, every night, individually, ritual, singly, theatre, The Theatre, transport, transports
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